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Phobetor answers Costa’s call with Missile Stakes win
Son of Dream Ahead wins first black type race of new season to land in-form trainer maiden Group 2 victory Emerging talent Phobetor (Dream Ahead) brought up the biggest win of young gun Gold Coast trainer Michael Costa’s career with a notable victory over some big names in the Missile Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) at... Read More
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In-form Costa heads south for Missile strike with Phobetor
Melbourne plans also afoot for Gold Coast trainer who has ambitions to build stable depth Michael Costa’s immediate focus is on today’s Missile Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) at Randwick with lightly raced sprinter Phobetor (Dream Ahead), but the trainer is also looking further ahead at Group 1 spring carnival races in Melbourne for members of... Read More
Calaway Gal winner Better Reflection sells for $350,000
Written Tycoon or Farnan on the cards for star country Queensland mare John Wigginton, a laidback trainer from the beef capital of Rockhampton, has been down the breeding route before. Those experiences rendered any thoughts of holding onto Better Reflection (Better Than Ready) obsolete. So, when he made the sudden decision late last month to... Read More
Leneva Park backs Deep Field’s son Aysar and Lindsay Park’s next generation
Group 1 spring goals for former Shadwell-owned four-year-old entire with Hayes siblings at the helm Group 1-placed entire Aysar (Deep Field) will retire to Leneva Park next year, but not before the Lindsay Park-trained four-year-old with a deep pedigree is given his chance to win a race at the highest level during the Melbourne spring... Read More
Te Akau’s big guns to step out at Ellerslie barrier trials
New Zealand thoroughbred empire Te Akau Racing is fresh off another dominant season in which the all-powerful tangerine won a quarter of all stakes races run in the country and more than ten per cent of all prize-money on offer in 2020-21. And the sheer depth of talent of the Matamata stable, which has 100... Read More
Bruggemann making most of NT trip with Darwin Cup fancy Highly Decorated
Well-travelled gelding shooting for seven on the bounce in $200,000 Top End feature The Northern Territory might be an Australian racing outpost but its Top End carnival reaches its crescendo this weekend, culminating in the $200,000 Darwin Cup (2050m) on Monday. For South Australian trainer Nicole Bruggemann, the Darwin Cup will be the forerunner for... Read More